法拉盛华裔开发商家族第二代海伦·李谈社区营造 法拉盛广场二期9月动工
11月3日刊出的《商业观察》专访介绍，纽约市皇后区法拉盛华裔开发商F&T集团第二代掌门人海伦·李正带领这家家族企业进入新阶段。F&T集团由李氏家族创办，家族上世纪80年代初从台湾移民到皇后区，公司在法拉盛市中心开发了唐格拉姆购物中心、富尔顿一号广场和法拉盛广场一期等大型综合项目。
法拉盛广场一期于2017年完工，总面积约66万平方英尺。今年是公司成立30周年，法拉盛广场二期已于9月动工，总面积约60万平方英尺，建成后将提供156套住宅、一座1.3英亩的公共公园、10万平方英尺办公公寓、一座6.3万平方英尺的新青年会设施和14.8万平方英尺零售空间。
海伦·李表示，她的零售策略深受亚洲商场启发，去年圣诞节期间她走访了亚洲七个国家的约25家商场，认为亚洲商场是家人聚会、停留数小时的社区场所，而法拉盛以亚裔居民为主，商业开发必须回应本地市场的需求。公司近期还将启动法拉盛广场三期的前期开发，面积约40万平方英尺。
（来源：《商业观察》）
Flushing's Helen Lee of F&T Group on Community Building as Flushing Commons Phase 2 Breaks Ground
A Commercial Observer interview published Nov. 3 profiles Helen Lee, a second-generation leader of F&T Group, the Chinese American development family behind major projects in downtown Flushing, Queens. The Lee family immigrated from Taiwan to Queens in the early 1980s, and the firm has built Tangram, One Fulton Square and Phase 1 of Flushing Commons.
Phase 1 of Flushing Commons was completed in 2017 at about 660,000 square feet. In the firm's 30th anniversary year, Phase 2 broke ground in September at roughly 600,000 square feet, promising 156 residences, a 1.3-acre public park, 100,000 square feet of office condominiums, a new 63,000-square-foot YMCA facility and 148,000 square feet of retail.
Lee said her retail strategy draws on Asian shopping centers; over Christmas last year she visited about 25 malls in seven Asian countries, and sees them as community places where families gather for hours. Because Flushing is heavily Asian, she said, development must respond to the local market. The firm will also soon start pre-development for Phase 3, at approximately 400,000 square feet.
(Source: Commercial Observer)
来源：《商业观察》
发布：GSM·美国（发布链接）
图片来源：图：纽约法拉盛Main Street街景。（Wikimedia Commons，公共领域） / Photo: Main Street in Flushing, New York. (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
GSM Global · 本篇英文版 English edition of this story
